For you awards nuts out there, the St. Louis Film Critics, the professional association of working film critics in the St. Louis area (of which I am a member), announced their nominees for the annual St. Louis Film Critics Awards on Monday, December 9, 2013. The yearly awards are given to recognize the best in cinema shown in the St. Louis area for the year.
Winners of the St. Louis Film Critics’ Awards will be announced on Monday, December 16.
One note about the nominations, Scarlett Johannson, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actress is ineligible for an Academy Award because her performance is voice only (a rehash of the Andy Serkis motion-capture debate of a few years ago); but we felt she creates a complete character and her performance is vital to the film’s success. She is awesome and so are we, so we nominated her anyway. Stick it, Academy.
The 2013 St. Louis Film Critics’ Award nominees are:
Best Film
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
Spike Jonze (Her)
Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
David O. Russell (American Hustle)
Best Actor
Christian Bale (American Hustle)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station)
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Actress
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Cate Blanchette (Blue Jasmine)
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)
Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)
Best Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
Harrison Ford (42)
Will Forte (Nebraska)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Supporting Actress
Scarlett Johannson (Her)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyongo (12 Years a Slave)
Lea Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)
June Squibb (Nebraska)
Best Original Screenplay
American Hustle
Enough Said
Her
Nebraska
Saving Mr. Banks
Best Adapted Screenplay
12 Years a Slave
Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
Philomena
Short Term 12
The Spectacular Now
Best Cinematography
12 Years a Slave(Sean Bobbitt)
The Grandmaster(Philippe Le Sourd)
The Great Gatsby(Simon Duggan)
Gravity(Emmanuel Lubezki)
Inside Llewyn Davis(Bruno Delbonnel)
Nebraska(Phedon Papamichael)
Best Visual Special Effects
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Star Trek Into Darkness
Thor: The Dark World
Best Musical Score
12 Years a Slave
Gravity
Her
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Nebraska
Saving Mr. Banks
Best Soundtrack
American Hustle
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
The Great Gatsby
Inside Llewyn Davis
Muscle Shoals
Best Art Direction
12 Years A Slave
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Documentary
20 Feet from Stardom
The Act of Killing
Blackfish
Muscle Shoals
Stories We Tell
Best Non-English Language Film
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
A Hijacking
The Hunt
No
Wadjda
Best Comedy
Enough Said
The Heat
Nebraska
The Way Way Back
The World’s End
Best Animated Feature
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises
Best Art-House or Festival Film
For artistic excellence in independent, international, or smaller-budget films that played at film festivals, film series, or had a limited-release run in St. Louis, playing one to three cinemas.
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Before Midnight
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Frances Ha
In a World…
Short Term 12
Best Scene
- A favorite movie scene or sequence
12 Years a Slave- The hanging scene
Captain Phillips– The scene near the end of the film where Tom Hanks is being checked out by military medical personnel and he breaks down.
Gravity- the opening tracking shot.
Her– OS sex scene.
The Place Beyond the Pines -The opening scene where Ryan Gosling is walking through the carnival
